Work is not a shame. Laziness is a shame.

Labor is no disgrace.

Hunger is an altogether fit companion for the idle man.

For a man wins nothing better than a good wife, and then again nothing deadlier than a bad one.

He is senseless who would match himself against a stronger man; for he is deprived of victory and adds suffering to disgrace.

So the people will pay the penalty for their kings' presumption, who, by devising evil, turn justice from her path with tortuous speech.

It is not possible either to trick or escape the mind of Zeus.